You might have seen my last post on the London Temple of Mithras or London Mithraeum. As part of the massive building project which has seen the creation of the new Bloomburg Headquarters and the painstakingly restored and relocated Temple of Mithras, a very ancient roadway has been re-opened that had been lost for much of… Continue reading An ancient Roman road re-opens in London – Watling Street Revived
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Busting the myth of London being a Rainy city
If there is one thing that tourists ask me when I’m out with them it is Brexit or Donald Trump. If there is a second thing they ask me it is about the weather. For some reason, people have the idea that it always rains in London and really it couldn’t be further from… Continue reading Busting the myth of London being a Rainy city
My New London Roman Walking Tour
You don’t have to go to Rome to see Roman ruins, or even St Albans, Bath or York. Though people were all ready living here, it was the Romans who founded the modern city of Londinium that through the millennia has metamorphosed into today what is possibly the greatest city in the world. Much of Roman… Continue reading My New London Roman Walking Tour
London as you’ve never seen it before… at Christmas with the voice of an Angel.
I wasn’t going to blog again, especially so as I have been out on a tour this morning. It was my inaugrial Sacred, Secret Gardens of London tour today and I was showing round a lovely PhD student studying medicine. Most tourists to London are content with seeing the big tourists sights such as Big… Continue reading London as you’ve never seen it before… at Christmas with the voice of an Angel.
Dr Alfred Salter – The man who created an NHS before the NHS was created
My walk of discovery along the southern bank of the Thames through Bermondsey and Rotherhithe was proving to reveal all manner of hidden gems of London both past and present. The next discovery however was something or rather someone which I knew next to nothing about. Not far from the manor house and Angel Pub… Continue reading Dr Alfred Salter – The man who created an NHS before the NHS was created
Rwandan Dancers At The WTM Expo in London
Last week I was invited to attend the WTM expo at the ExCel convention centre at the Royal Victoria Docks in London. It is the leading global travel trade show and each year brings almost 50,000 people together with the aim of getting the entire world on holiday, As such, I thought it was a… Continue reading Rwandan Dancers At The WTM Expo in London
A drive through London in 1946
I came across this video today when I was mean’t to be working on one of my worik in progress manuscripts. It shows that traffic has always been bad in London though it seems quiet at first. I really enjoyed watching this video and seem to know all of the streets the video takes us… Continue reading A drive through London in 1946
Weird Street Names of London
One of the things that I come across when I do my tours in London and indeed everywhere else in the U.K. is some of the unusual names that can be found either of settlement names or street names. London has its fair share of weird names, some of them very traditional if a little… Continue reading Weird Street Names of London
Dr Samuel Johnson, his dictionary and quotes
It is 308 years since the birth of Samuel Johnson, who wrote the English language’s most comprehensive dictionary in the 1750s. So this seems as good a time as any to express my utmost contrafibularities (see below) to the man himself. Johnson, born in 1709, spent nine years working on A Dictionary of the English… Continue reading Dr Samuel Johnson, his dictionary and quotes
Wilton’s Music Hall – Victorian London Comes To Life!
If you read my review of The Limehouse Golem earlier this week, you’ll remember how much of the plot revolves around a Victorian era music hall. Music Halls were once widespread around the entire country but eventually became all but extinct with the advent of cinema, television and modern day discos and clubs. However there… Continue reading Wilton’s Music Hall – Victorian London Comes To Life!
Stephen Liddell 